Li Xiaopeng (gymnast)

Li Xiaopeng (Turner) medal table
Li Xiaopeng at the 2008 Olympic Games
Artistic gymnast
People's Republic of China
Olympic games
gold	2000 Sydney	Team all-around
gold	2000 Sydney	Ingots
gold	2008 Beijing	Team all-around
gold	2008 Beijing	Ingots
bronze	2004 Athens	Ingots
World championships
gold	1997 Lausanne	Team all-around
gold	1999 Tianjin	Team all-around
gold	1999 Tianjin	Leap
gold	2002 Debrecen	Leap
gold	2002 Debrecen	Ingots
gold	2003 Anaheim	Team all-around
gold	2003 Anaheim	Leap
gold	2003 Anaheim	Ingots
silver	1997 Lausanne	Ingots
silver	2005 Melbourne	Team all-around
bronze	1997 Lausanne	ground

Li Xiaopeng , 李小鹏, Lǐ Xiǎopéng, (born July 27, 1981 in Changsha , Hunan ) is a Chinese gymnast .

Life

Li initially trained at a sports school in Hunan from the age of 6 and became a member of the Hunan provincial gymnastics team from the age of 12. At the age of 15 he was sent to the national team of the Chinese.

His paragon is the parallel bars , but he also achieved great success on the jump. Between 1997 and 2008 he won numerous national and international competitions in gymnastics. In 2000 he won gold at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney with the team and in singles on parallel bars. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , Li achieved bronze on bars and at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he won the gold medal in singles on bars and gold in the team of Chinese gymnasts.

To date, Li has been world gymnastics champion eight times , more than any other gymnast in China. This includes two titles on parallel bars, three on vaults and three with the team. Xiaopeng also won a world championship bronze medal and a world cup on the ground .

Web links

• Li Xiaopeng (Turner) in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
• Li Xiaopeng in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://data.sports.163.com/athlete/home/0005000E0HNU.html (Chinese)